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Brave New World Ch. 1

VOCABULARY

• Squats- fat, wide ,short

• Bokanovskify- is a fictional process of human cloning

• Decanted- gradually pour (liquid, typically wine or solution) from one container into another.

• Decanting room-  The embryos are kept in a warm, humid environment under red lights and moved through a conveyor belt for 267 days, until they arrive at the decanting room to be poured out, into the daylight.

• Demilohns- A bulbous narrow necked bottle holding 3 to 10 gallons of liquid, typically enclosed ina wicker cover

• interminable- endless

• sow- plant with seed

• Peritoneum- the serous membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and covering the abdominal organs

• Morula- A solid ball of cells resulting from division of a fertilized ovum, and from which a blastula is formed

• Saline- A solution with salt water

• labellers- ?


NOTES

• In the 1950's mechenery was used more during that period of time.

• Basically humans are things

• For in nature it takes 30 years for 200 hundred eggs to reach maturity

• They could make at least a hundred and fifty mature eggs within 2 years

• Multiply by 72 and you get an average of nearly 11 thousand brothers and sisters in a hundred and fifty identical twins within two years of same age

• can make one ovary over 15 thousand adult individuals.

• 16 thousand and 12 in this centre is the record for a single ovary

• At 13 a man is not sexually mature and is full grown at 20

SUMMARY
• The process is supplied to fertilized human eggs into vitro causing them to split into identical genetic copies of the original

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